Matin Research Journal

Matin Research Journal

Status of the Islamic Revolution in Theories Criticizing Modern Politics

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Isfahan.
2 Master of Science (MSc) in Political Science, University of Isfahan.
Abstract
The present paper is an
attempt to briefly discuss the viewpoints of the critics of modern politics.
The critics of the modern politics of the postmodernists along with
communitarians challenge modern politics from a humanistic or modernist
viewpoint.  On the other hand the traditionalists criticize the modern
politics from an illuminative approach, rejecting the extremist scientism and
individualism of the

modernists. On the other hand the fundamentalists have committed grave crimes
in the name of Islam. The Islamic Revolution in late 1970s through a
revelational and Shii approach challenged the modern politics of he East and
West, opening a new horizon in man's life. Since the Islamic Revolution defined
itself in the light of the bright horizon of Mahdism, it negated the theory of
the end of history or the

totality of the West and on the other hand defined itself within the framework
Wilayat Faqih
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